Messages in this thread | | | From | Marcus Metzler <> | Date | Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:03:04 +0200 | Subject | Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc) |
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>>>>> "Koos" == Koos Vriezen <koos.vriezen@xs4all.nl> writes:
Koos> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> > >> > It's not up to him to decide. He can step down from his >> maintainership, > but he can't force the driver to be removed. >> Yes and no. From a legal standpoint you're right. However, we >> should also be polite. If he's the sole author, and he asks for >> it, I think it's reasonable to honor his wishes.
Koos> Doubtfully of course. I maintain a small OSS applicatione Koos> and although it sucks, it wouldn't be there where it is now Koos> w/o input from others. Some are better at writing code, Koos> others making patches and others complaing why XYZ doesn't Koos> work. But all do contribute. Imho it would be very unpolite Koos> to them to just say, thanks for everything but this app is Koos> dead and btw. I removed all references to it. Please play Koos> be the rules, GPL is GPL period (and don't make this a weak Koos> spot for OSS by being soft).
>> Of course if some new maintainer shows up and decides to infer >> how the device worked by looking at the original open-source >> code, that's also clearly fine. I don't want people to play >> lawyer. Honoring peoples rights to the code they write is more >> important than just the law.
Koos> I'm sure this will resolve one day (in the meantime, I've Koos> put what I had on my hd on Koos> http://www.xs4all.nl/~jjvrieze/pwc.html, please alert if the Koos> md5sum are incorrect for those having this somewhere too).
Under what license were the binary modules distributed ?
Marcus
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